README for Edition 2.3 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
* This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference
Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex,
which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of
texinfo.tex. Also, it contains makeinfo.c.
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* The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around
700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two
megabytes.
* You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
using TeX.
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** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:
** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this
manual is included in this distribution.
The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called
`elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the
chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has
the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the
@titlespec command.
To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following
commands in the shell:
% make index.texi
% make elisp.dvi
*** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
with `make-permuted-index'.
** INFO: A copy of makeinfo.c that will format this manual for Info is
included in this distribution. This program is written in C and can
be used separately from Emacs. `makeinfo' produces much better error
messages than the old `texinfo-format-buffer'. You can run `makeinfo'
it on the `elisp.texi' file.